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perfessor

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6. I've always wondered who and how

Reply to bif (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 09:17 AM

Aug 13

they do quality control in the pet food plant. If the flavor were to change, who has the job of tasting it to find out?

One of our cats is twenty years old and finicky, and generally only eats the “beef with savory center” flavor. But on occasion he will go on a hunger strike and we wonder if something changed.

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Did Fancy Feast change their recipes? Or is my cat getting fussier? [View all] bif Aug 13 OP

Your cat has learned that you think she likes Fancy Feast so now she can't like it. Ocelot II Aug 13 #1

That is probably the correct answer Walleye Aug 13 #3

Good line! bif Aug 13 #8

I don't know, mine like the fancy feast, seafood pate Walleye Aug 13 #2

I've noticed that Purina keeps changing one or two things in their dry food regularly. My indoor cat used to ... marble falls Aug 13 #4

Fancy Feast crack for cats oberle Aug 13 #5

I've always wondered who and how perfessor Aug 13 #6

One of my guys is the pickiest cat I've ever known EverHopeful Aug 13 #7

I was once engaged to a woman whose cat would NOT eat food that had been in the refrigerator. BobTheSubgenius Aug 13 #9

I made a comment about this in a reply on 10 Aug Nigrum Cattus Aug 13 #10

Enshittification Freddie Aug 13 #12

My entire clowder of cats agreed on one thing... slightlv Aug 13 #13

I keep trying to find a wet food my boys will eat Freddie Aug 13 #11

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